Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting. He has written on U. S. space policy as well as NASA's human and space science initiatives.
Mark was recognized by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and Headliners Foundation as well as the Chronicle in 2004 for news coverage of the shuttle Columbia tragedy and its aftermath.
He is a graduate of the University of Kansas and holds a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Kansas State University.
From new users to repeat customers, the nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space reports a growing interest in the International Space Station as a laboratory research platform.
Although Ad Astra Rocket Co. isn’t giving up on aspirations of interplanetary travel, the 10-year-old enterprise is focused firmly in the near term on ground-level refinements and a key demonstration of its novel plasma propulsion technologies through a new NASA Advanced Exploration Systems partnership agreement.
SpaceX’s sixth Dragon commercial resupply mission spacecraft climbed to orbit April 14, initiating a three-day trip to the six-person International Space Station (ISS) with a 4,300-lb. cargo, following a 24-hr. weather delay.
